Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-09-08

There are sliding doors between the sitting
room and the bed room. In the front part of
the bed room is a large closet. 1t is possible
that many would prefer to have a window at
this point and have a smaller closet else
where, say in the corner next to the sliding
door partition. The placing of a closet next
to the rear wall would leave no place for a
bed as the rooms are now arranged. If the
door from the parlor to the bed room were
omitted the head of the bed might be placed
against the sliding door partition and the
closet cut out from the rear bed room, with
an opening leading into the front bed room.
From the sitting room or from the front bed
room we pass into little hall and from the
hall into the kitchen, the bath room or the
rear bed room. Over each one of the five
doors leading into this hall there should be
transoms; thus it would be well lighted. The
placing of the hall in this way makes all of the
rooms surrounding it independently accessi-
BILE. The rear bed room has place for a bed,
large closet and a wall space for necessary
furniture The availability Of bed room is
not always dependent upon its size. A room
may be large and yet not contain wall space
for the furniture. A large bed room may
have a small closet. This bed room has a
large one.
The bath room comes next to the kitchen
f1ue. That means good deal when we con-
slider that the kitchen fue is frequently the
last one in the house to get cool. As here
arranged the pipe connections with the bath
tub would all be short; they would all be
near this fiue and all would be on the inside
wall Hence the conditions would be against
the freezing of the pipes and parts of the
plumbing apparatus which contain water.
There is hollow thimble in the pipe connec-
tions between the kitchen fue and the bed
room. The bath room might connect with
the same fiue or fue stack. There is a large
linen closet connecting with the bath room
which is about the proper size and form for
folded bed Clothes. 1t is near the bath room
window, so that when the closet door is open
the contents will be plainly in view.
There is large window in one side of the
kitchen, which should be placed three feet
from the floor so as to admit of a table being
set under it. If the kitchen stove were to
be placed next to the wall separating the
kitchen and sitting room it could be piped
across to the kitchen fiue and in that way
leave the wall space adjacent to that flue and
near to the bath tub free for placingthe kitchen
sink. This would bring all the plumbing
work together. Next to this sink could be a
well pump in sections of the country where
driven well is impossible. This pump would
be at one end of the sink and cistern pump
at the other.
In the rear of the kitchen is porch and a
pantry. We go down cellar directly from
the kitchen. Over the headway of the cellar
stairs could be paced closet for various
stores, such as canned fruit. This closet, of
course, would be connected with the pantry,
as shown The necessity for head room in
going down cellar would make it necessary to
place the floor of this closet three or four feet
above the pantry floor.